Interesting photos of the start of an atomic blast.

[texas1928]

Ever wondered what an atomic blast looks like before it obliterates everything around it? Before the smoke, the mushroom cloud, the devastation, it's really quite amazing to see the first few fractions of an atomic bomb upon detonation.

Edgerton built a special lens 10 feet long for his camera which was set up in a bunker 7 miles from the source of the blast which was triggered Nevada - the bomb placed atop a steel gantry anchored to the desert floor by guide wires. The exposures are at 1/100,000,000ths of a second.

Photos at link below:
http://www.rapidnewswire.com/atom.htm

[cleofus1]

1. nasty

balls nasty...

[GirlinContempt]

2. It's like I have this constant war happening in my head.

I love science. I go crazynuts for science. Those are so cool, and interesting.
10 seconds after thinking that, I wanna throw up, because I know what's been done with the science. And I can't separate the two for any extended period of time.

[texas1928]

3. Well it is scary that this is what we do with science.

But it is interesting how it works. And all I have ever seen of the tests in the desert are the mushroom cloud. That almost looks like, or possibly is an expanding ball of plasma. It is very interesting to see.

[progmom]

4. that's fascinating

....and terrifying. :scared:

[texas1928]

9. It is fascinating that there is that much power in an atom.

It is terrifying that we have an atom brain in control of that power.

[derby378]

5. WOW.

That is truly amazing!

All I ever saw was that blinding flash when the focus of the explosion reaches a temperature so high that you can only find it in the core of a star. To actually see the fireball forming is out of this world.

[Immad2]

6. Thank you for the link. It is terrifying that the idiot in the Whitehouse

has his finger on the trigger. With all the talk of going nuclear on Iran doesn't make a person feel to safe.

Very interesting pictures, thanks!

[texas1928]

7. You are welcome.

And yes that moron frightens me in more ways then one.

[Hissyspit]

8. Wow, very disturbing.

Gonna use that image in some art.